Rulers and kings who will not hear the call, In one dread hour shall thunder-stricken fall.
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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So moves the growing world with march sublime, Setting new music to the beats of time.
Old things decay, and new things ceaseless spring, And God’s own face is seen in everything.
Therefore it is that there shall soon come a time in which the people will ask for universal liberty, universal equality, and universal justice.
Reform has never yet been constructive, but destructive to existing things.
Nevertheless, all reform originates primarily from a common cause—the effort of humanity to attain to the full exercise of human right, only attainable through the possession of freedom, equality and justice.
Any reform which does not embrace these three principles must necessarily be diffusive, instructive or educational.
Each different branch is the squaring of a separate stone, all of which must be brought together and adjusted before even the corner-stone of the perfect and permanent structure can be laid.
Hence republicanism as represented by the party in power has done its work, and those who prefer to stick to it rather than to come out and rally around a platform perfect in humanitarian principles, will thus show themselves to be more…
A hundred years have come and gone since political freedom was evolved from the womb of civilization.
Great as its mission was, great as its results have been, shall the car of progress stop there?
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.